Server Storage

Last Updated: Feb. 17th 2022 at 7:34pm Tags: blog linux

This article outlines everything I can think of about space on your server drives.

This article outlines everything I can think of about space on your server drives.
What is taking up how much space where.

This guide is for an ssh connection to a Linux server.

First lets see what drives we have or “Display File system” information

#List all of your drives on the machine
df -h

h is the parameter for human readable

Next lets navigate to the directory that you want to check.
This could be root, but in my case it is my shared directory

cd /share/MD0_DATA
#next lets create a report of our directory or "Display Usage"
du -hcd 1

h means human readable
c means produce a grand total
d means max-depth (use –max-depth=1 if your system doesn’t support the d option)

Once you are in the directory which is taking up all your space you can list the files using

ls -lah

This will tell you the human readable file size as a list and include all your hidden files

Use find

If you just want to find all the files over a certain size use the following command:

find / -type f -size +20M -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }'

ncdu is a nice command line “gui” that can help you navigate the space used on your file system. Check the repositories of your distro.